In it, supported by Stella
Stevens, Laurel Goodwin and
Jeremy
Slate, he
plays a night club singer/fisherman turned tuna boat skipper sporting a yachting cap in the style he'd wear
often off screen too. Prior to its final title, the project had various names including
A Girl in Every Port, Welcome Aboard and Gumbo Ya Ya.*

In several scenes of the film Elvis is pictured playing a Harmony H165 Mahogany
guitar, with the name removed as was the norm for many of the guitars in
his movies. It first appears in a scene played by another character
while Elvis plays a Martin 0-17. Later onboard the boat it is
also seen played by Red West (with brown hair) and Elvis. By the
final scene Elvis is again playing either an older H165 without a
steel reinforced neck or the same one with more of the headstock blacked
out blacked out.

In
the 1963 release of Paramount's
Fun in Acapulco Elvis's thirteenth movie and next with the
studio after Girls! Girls! Girls!, he's cast as an American working as a
lifeguard/entertainer in Mexico trying to overcome his fear of heights.
The film puts him opposite Ursula
Andress fresh off her role as the first Bond girl in Dr.
No, the first of the James Bond film franchise.

Elvis
doesn't play one guitar in this film but it features several of the
guitars he used in some of his other films, such as the Harmony
Monterey, the Antigua Classical guitar
from Tickle
Me, and most notably the Harmony H165 Mahogany he played in Girls!
Girls! Girls! That guitar is seen in most of the musical scenes of
the movie from the first to the last.

As one of the more popular of the Harmony line, the flat top acoustic H165
- Mahogany is a Grand concert size guitar and is 15 1/8" wide
and 39" in overall length. They are described as having a body (and
top) of selected quality mahogany, with neatly rounded edges, in a natural color eggshell lacquer finish.
They have steel reinforced hardwood necks with an ovaled fingerboard of Brazilian rosewood.
They have 19 frets of which 14 clear the body.

The bridges are "Pinless" type and they have an applied shell
celluloid pickguards (later black). With three per side button tipped tuners, the headstocks featured a golden clef
log up until 1968. The guitar in Girls! Girls! Girls! had
replacement black button tuners. In 1957 they had a list price of $40.00, $47.50 in
1966 and $645.50 by 1970.

section in the Harmony catalog from the H165 and H162courtesy Lew Skinner

The H162 is the same guitar but features a spruce top. They were made
from 1944 to 1971 at least. The older models have a more rounded "figure
eight" body, like the guitar used in Love
Me Tender, and later models have a stenciled rosette around soundhole
and are stamped H165-1 The H165 Mahogany was also sold as Fender
F-1030 and a Montgomery
Wards 8354. The guitars can still be found today and in recent years
have sold anywhere from $100 to $500.

Dewey Phillips and Elvis with a Harmony H165 at Lansky's - 1956Photo by Robert Williams

Coincidentally, Elvis was photographed years earlier in
June 1956 with a Harmony H165 Mahogany during a visit to Lansky's in
Memphis.